Filipinx American Studies (Web PDF) von Rick Bonus

Filipinx American Critique: An Introduction | 1
Rick Bonus and Antonio T. Tiongson Jr.

Section A: Reckoning

Part I: Empire as Endless War
1. Empire: Turns and Returns | 33
Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez
2. Empire as the Rule of War and Fascism | 42
Nerissa S. Balce
3. Empire: US States at the Intersection of Diaspora and Indigeneity | 57
Dean Itsuji Saranillio
4. The Persistence of War through Migration | 67
Cynthia Marasigan
5. Liminal Services: Third Spaces of Being within the United States | 83
JoAnna Poblete
6. “Genocide” and the Poetics of Alter-Being in the Obsolescence of the “Filipino American” | 91
Dylan Rodríguez

Part II: Labor and Knowledge/Power
7. Filipinx Labor and the Contradictions of US Empire | 103
Josen Masangkay Diaz
8. On History, Development, and Filipinx American Studies: Emergent, Dominant, and Residual | 111
Victor Bascara
9. The Limits of “Immigration” Frameworks:
Centering Empire in Analyzing Migration and the Diaspora | 118
Roy B. Taggueg Jr. and Robyn Magalit Rodriguez
10. Including the Excluded:
The “Chinese” in the Philippines and the Study of “Migration” in Filipinx American Studies | 128
Richard T. Chu
11. Labor and Carework | 138
Anna Romina Guevarra
12. The Labor of History in Filipinx Historiography | 148
Jody Blanco

Section B: Reclamation

Part III: Across Language, Sex-Gender, and Space-Time Geographies
13. Pag-uugat at Paglalayag (Roots and Journeys): Filipino Language Learning and Activism | 165
Joi Barrios
14. In an Archipelago and Sea of Complexities: Contemporary Intersectional / Transpacific / Decolonial Queer and/or Trans Filipinx American Studies | 174
Kale Bantigue Fajardo
15. Datíng as Affect in Filipinx Migration | 185
Allan Punzalan Isaac
16. Gender: A Transpacific Feminist Approach to Filipinx Studies | 192
Denise Cruz
17. The Contingencies of Kasarian | 201
Robert Diaz

Part IV: Critical Schooling and Justice in Other Words
18. Filipinx Americans and Higher Education | 211
Dina C. Maramba
19. Filipinx American College Student Identities: A Critique of Models | 221
Reuben B. Deleon
20. Third World Studies and the Living Archive of US-based Filipinx Activism | 229
Michael Schulze-Oechtering
21. Activism Is in the Heart of Filipinx American Studies | 239
Jeffrey Santa Ana
22. Filipinx American Activism—and Why I Once Loved Manny Pacquiao | 256
Karín Aguilar-San Juan
23. Considerations from the US-Occupied Pacific | 267
Kim Compoc

Section C: Transformation

Part V: Relationalities, Intimacies, and Entanglements
24. Filipinxness: An Epochal Perspective | 279
Anthony Bayani Rodriguez
25. A Tale of Two “X”s: Queer Filipinx and Latinx Linguistic Intimacies | 284
Sony Coráñez Bolton
26. Hypervisible (In)visibility: Black Amerasians | 291
Angelica J. Allen
27. Why I Don’t (Really) Consider Myself a Filipinx:
Complicating “Filipinxness” from a Katutubo Intervention | 298
J. A. Ruanto-Ramirez
28. Repertoires on Other Stages | 308
Theodore S. Gonzalves

Part VI: Recalcitrant Bodies, Unruly Vernaculars
29. Confronting Worldly Acts: Filipinx Performances and Their Elsewheres | 323
Lucy MSP Burns
30. Aye Nako!: The Frustrations of Filipinx American Illegibility | 335
Alana J. Bock
31. Who Cares?: Ability and the Elderly Question in Filipinx American Studies | 343
Edward Nadurata
32. Dalaga na!: Gender and Youth Studies Come of Age in Filipinx Studies | 352
Evelyn Ibatan Rodriguez
33. Unpacking Hiya: (Trans)national “Traits” and the (Un)making of Filipinxness | 362
Martin F. Manalansan IV
34. Language Run Amok | 370
Sarita Echavez See

Afterword | 379
Gina Apostol

Appendixes: Key Resources in Filipinx American Studies
A. A Selection of Library Research Tools and Web Resources Related to Filipinx American Studies | 385
Gerardo A. Colmenar
B. Selected List of Scholarship on Filipinx American Studies | 403
Edward Nadurata

Acknowledgments | 415
List of Contributors | 419
Index | 435